eICU® Care
Fact Sheet

Implementation of eICU® Care at Advocate means:

• The introduction of cutting-edge technology for around-the-clock, simultaneous, real-time audio and video monitoring of intensive care unit (ICU) patients at our hospitals - all from one command center - which serves as a supplement to regular visits from a patient's physician.
• Technology that advances the already high quality of care Advocate hospitals provide in their ICUs, which can significantly reduce complications, decrease length of a patient's stay in the ICU and hospital resulting in a reduction of overall costs.
• Board-certified critical care specialists and trained ICU nurses provide continuous monitoring that enables physicians to tailor patient care in the ICU 24 hours a day.
• Advocate is the first hospital system in the Midwest to implement eICU technology and has the largest eICU program in the country.

Advocate ICU Statistics:

• 17 adult ICUs
• 212 adult ICU beds
• 66 board-certified adult critical care specialists
• 3.8 days is average length of stay
• 15,400 ICU admissions a year
• Advocate's per-patient cost per ICU day is $2,028 compared to national ICU averages of $2,500 per day.

Other vital statistics:

• Advocate Health Care is one of just five hospital systems around the country to introduce the high-tech eICU technology.
• Advocate's eICU Care program has 142 adult ICU beds online in seven of its eight acute-care hospitals:
  • Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge (34),
  • Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington (10),
  • Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove (32),
  • Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago (34),
  • Advocate Trinity Hospital, Chicago (12),
  • Advocate South Suburban Hospital, Hazel Crest (14) and
  • Advocate Bethany Hospital, Chicago (6).
• The eICU Care program will extend to all 212 adult ICU beds across the Advocate system by mid 2004.
• Advocate Health Care has 66 board-certified adult critical care specialists-a large number compared to most hospital systems around the country.
• Advocate's eICU Care program is an innovative way to use technology to achieve the Leapfrog Group's ICU safety goal of having intensivists available 24/7/365 for all ICU patients.
• eICU is a registered trademark of VISICU, Inc. — 2004 Microsoft Corp. and Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) Clinical/Patient Information Systems award winner.

Learn more about the eICU Care program at Advocate

April 30, 2004